Well, exactly. Emoji are the pictographic emoticons that were in common use on Japanese phones in proprietary encodings.

Well sure, but since when is emoji part of unicode?

Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Uh, what?

>since when is emoji part of unicode?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan...

>Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Um, yes. I said "that were". I realise it is now mainstream now because it is now in Unicode.